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And he issued that famous letter, called the Encyclical, against the errors of Modernism.
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The day after the publication of the Encyclical, that is to say, the
The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891
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One important Paris journal found fault with Mr. Wilson and his "Encyclical," and protested emphatically against his way of filling every gap in his arrangements by wedging into it his League of
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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It was a kind of Encyclical from the reigning pontiff of science, and since that potentate changed every year there was some uncertainty as to his subject and its treatment, and there was this further piquant attraction, wanting in other and better-known Encyclicals, that the address of one year might not merely contradict but might even exhibit a lofty contempt for that or for those which had immediately preceded it.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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If S. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians was "a Circular," then it was not "Encyclical:" if it was "Encyclical" then it was not "a Circular."
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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This is clearly to forsake the "Encyclical" hypothesis altogether, and to put Ephes.i. 1 on the same footing as any other disputed text of Scripture which can be named.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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An "Encyclical," (and that is the word which has been imported into the present discussion), was quite a different document from what we call
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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Are we then deliberately to believe, (for to this necessity we are logically reduced,) that the Epistle which occupies the fifth place among S. Paul's writings, and which from the beginning of the second century, -- that is, from the very dawn of Historical evidence, -- has been known as "the Epistle to the Ephesians," was an "Encyclical," "Catholic
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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Pope Pius XII, in his Encyclical Mystici Corporis, confirms this authority when he quotes St. Robert to support his explanation of why the social Body of the Church should be honored with the name of Christ.
Saints 2009
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In this regard, I wrote in the Encyclical Evangelium vitae that an honest appraisal of their effectiveness should dispel certain prejudices which are still widely held, and should convince married couples, as well as health-care and social workers, of the importance of proper training in this area.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009
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